Echidnaphile and @sdut reporter on biotechnology and San Diego Zoo. Catch me at: https://xitter.cf/t.co/OeBFAt2bAm and https://xitter.cf/t.co/Z2CYnVlp9P
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2009
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WHAT A GORGEOUS GIANT ANTEATER 😍
Definitely the best camera trap record I've got so far!!
When camera traps are not being used to monitor Helmeted Manakin's nests, I install them in tracks around my fieldwork area to better know the residents around!
"The vaping-linked illnesses everyone's been panicking are a result of synthetic vitamin E filler (and maybe other substances) that people were inhaling from mostly black-market THC vape pens."
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Instead of a 60-year-old test that takes 3 hours, a simple 2 minute accurate sweat test for cystic fibrosis that uses #AI (ML) to distinguish DESI mass spec pattern for healthy vs. #CF
pnas.org/content/early/2019/… @PNASNews by @RichardNZare and colleagues @StanfordMed
Mouse study led by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute prompts clinical trial of new concept in asparagine-restrictive pancreatic cancer therapy
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@SBPdiscovery
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“'Bob,' I announced, 'We are going to live with your Alzheimer’s, not die with it.' Shame, I told him, was not an option. He had a disease, not a moral failing. It was time to come out of the shadows," writes Mary Hogan. #ENDALZ via @EverydayHealth everydayhealth.com/columns/m…
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"The problem of antibiotic resistance is worse than we originally estimated” - @CDCgov's Michael Craig addresses the Antibiotic Resistance Threat Report Hill briefing, co-hosted by @pewhealth and @IDSAInfo #CDCARThreats #AMR
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“Pesticides tend to receive little else but bad press — bees are slain, lawsuits are filed, and proponents of everything....Yet pesticides are vital to human health, nutrition, and global food security. Simply put, we cannot live without them” forbes.com/sites/johncumbers…
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. - John Muir
📷: Todd Lahman
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"These new agents appear to be a losing proposition for hospitals, which may lose up to $300,000 for each CAR-T treatment administered, note experts in a commentary published online November 1 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology." ow.ly/NOA230pTtqi
Tips for success for San Diego girls who want to be scientists, from successful female scientists. My second story about Wednesday's San Diego Unified STEAM Leadership Series provides advice that didn't get into the first article.
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Zebra mom earns her stripes
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Jean Rivier, the late Salk Institute brain hormone expert, loved exploring wild places, said his wife, Catherine Rivier.
“If I wanted to visit Paris or Rome or London, I was on my own. They were too civilized for him.”
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Jean Rivier, Salk Professor Emeritus, Passes Away at 78 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies salk.edu/news-release/jean-r… via @salkinstitute
News about @humanlongevity from @JCVenter
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"If the dead could speak, they would probably wish to contribute to the welfare of the living." —Kevin De Cock @CDCKenya & colleagues nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… @NEJM "The experience could be humbling or reassuring, but it was always a deterrent to medical hubris."
Mistakes in >30%
“It’s gonna be difficult. You’re going to get rejected. You’re not going to be having fun days every day. But ... I’ve traveled all over the world. I’ve ended up in places I never thought I would be.”
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Merck buys Calporta for up to $576 million. Company was one of eight formed under a 2013 deal with La Jolla's Avalon Ventures. Calporta has discovered potential drugs for neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases.
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